Common words from your childhood,that woukd have to be explained to your Grandchild.

Oh, I had a Barathea coat for school (hated it) and I never knew what Barathea was until your post and I looked it up.

It was probably very smart but everyone else had a gaberdine mac.

ps my Barathea coat went over my regulation wool blazer; how DM afforded it I do not know (and didn't even think about it at the time).

Yes, AlieOxon and if you put your gloves on wrongly then the elastic went up between your fingers

How about Blakeys on your shoes? Not sure if that's a word from just around this area?

I'm a northern lass and I remember blakeys MissA

Ah, well I'm down south. Must be a real word then!

And I remember blakeys too!

Weren’t they noisy!

Oh yes! Really grown up sounding.

They were Bella! I loved the way they sounded when I ran down the alley between the houses. Meant you couldn't go tip toeing in late though!

your parents thought 'Riverdance' had come to town..

Rag n’ bone man, I have had to explain this to my children, never mind the grandchildren. Also milkman, horse manure (we buy fertiliser at the garden centre now) and ghetto blaster.

We still have a milkman here and horse manure for sale in the village!

They are still around! www.blakeys-segs.co.uk/

A pair of nylons. Suspended belts. Corsets. Has anyone mentioned the Liberty bodice?
Apologies for any duplicates. ?

The generic term for a gaberdine school coat was 'Burberry' even if if wasn't made by that company. How different from its present-day up-market connotation.

I am not sure that my GC would know what a 'comic' is/was. They use the word 'magazine' to refer to the publications now aimed at their age group (they are 5 & 6), and I have to say that these overpriced glossy pieces of rubbish things aren't a patch on our traditional comics!

Did anyone deliberately click their heels when they walked, to make the sound louder.

Polly, how lovely to still have a milkman/woman, I wish we did. Another thing children don’t know about now is returning the empty bottles to the corner shop, but they soon will, according to today’s news!

Our milk and bread were delivered by horse (in a suburban town)

Well the baker and milkman came with the horses, of course!

I’ve never heard of blakeys.

I still have a milkman.

My granddaughter, age 5, uses the word ‘comic’. They are still around.

I asked my 3 yrvold GD what she wanted for tea, thinking along the lines of egg on toast. She said pasta with pesto. I'd never heard of that as a child or in fact until about 20 years ago. .

DGS had that last night for his evening meal polly!

The Permissive Society was talked about a lot when I was young but is never mentioned nowadays.
Has it gone away then?